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Keep your business model simple
It appears that the allure of complex pricing models and business strategies often proves too tempting to resist.
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How technology unlocks business models: The story of Netflix
Sixteen years after its reinvention as a streaming company, Netflix announced that it’s shuttering its mail-order DVD business. Here’s a look at how it got to where it is today.
A significant number of companies are following popular advice to try and break even, but the sad truth is that this is probably the worst possible advice for most startups…
Subscriptions are not dying; they are just evolving.
Experienced sailors know that if they turn the wheel too hard, they will soon need to compensate by turning it in the other direction, or they will capsize the boat.
The world needs a climate tech startup that’s like an early-days Uber, a company that won’t take no for an answer.
Frontegg, the popular user management service for developers who build B2B SaaS apps, today announced that it has raised a $40 million Series B round led by Stripes and Insight…
Founded last year, Guava aims to reduce the racial wealth gap by providing financial services to Black small businesses.
For e-commerce brands, the wave of bad economic news is a shot across the bow heralding a major change in consumer spending. Bleak times are ahead, but there’s room for…
Loot boxes, a way for players to receive random in-game rewards in exchange for real money, have been disparaged for a while now, and they’re now increasingly subject to government…
It’s tempting to over-invest in best-in-class technologies to drive efficiencies and stand out, but that technological desire to keep up with the Joneses can come at a significant cost.
The OpenInfra Foundation launches ‘directed funding’ as a new way to support open source projects
The OpenInfra Foundation, the open source foundation that used to be the OpenStack Foundation until it expanded its scope beyond its flagship project a few years ago, today announced…
For our latest survey, we polled 1,200 IT leaders, representing roughly $570 billion in annual IT spending.
Tech giants including Amazon, Google and Microsoft have pledged millions of dollars to bolster the security of open source software. The pledge was made during a meeting in Washington, DC…
Paddle, the company that wants to take on Apple in IAP, raises $200M at a $1.4B valuation to supercharge SaaS payments
Software as a service has become the default for how organizations adopt and use apps these days, thanks to advances in cloud computing and networking, and the flexibility of pay-as-you-use…
Fundid has a three-pronged approach to simplifying access to capital for small businesses with fewer than 10 employees.
Slope brings on new CFO, customers, capital as it rises to offer businesses buy now, pay later
Its API technology can approve businesses for the BNPL in seconds so they can begin offering the installments.
With SaaS becoming the standard for most business software, the security demands on SaaS companies are constantly increasing. Add users who need their data sandboxed from others or kept in…
As businesses increasingly rely on an ever-growing number of SaaS products, it has become imperative for security teams to get a better understanding of which applications a company’s employees are…
Despite the rapid growth and countless benefits of SaaS, there are significant challenges associated with managing and protecting SaaS data.
Loveseat gets comfy with new funding to expand its returned home goods marketplace
Husband-and-wife co-founders Chris and Jenny Stanchak started Loveseat back in 2013 as a vintage furniture business that they pivoted into an auction marketplace.
Netflix says an ad-supported tier still isn’t in its plans, despite the Disney+ announcement
Disney last week announced plans to introduce an ad-supported subscription tier to its Disney+ streaming service, but Netflix says a similar option for its own customers isn’t on the table…
When Regina Ye was in college, she was a Shopify seller and recalls being so fed up with advertising solutions that she spent finals week staying up late to figure…
Germany-based construction tech startup Cosuno has raised a $30 million Series B led by U.S. growth equity firm Avenir Growth. Spark Capital and Cherry Ventures, which led the Series A…
Mention Me, a platform to generate customer referrals, has raised a $25 million Series B round, led by London’s Octopus Ventures. Eight Roads Ventures, the lead investor from the prior…
Founded back in 2012, the LoopMe adtech/martech startup focused on brand-based mobile advertising, using AI to deliver measurable outcomes for its users. At its height, it had raised $25 million…
Its technology enables legal professionals and companies to create profiles and be matched to available work, monitor projects and pay through the platform.
EU lawmakers have formally proposed legislation for the gig economy they hope will improve conditions for platform workers across the bloc — including by establishing a framework to tackle the…
Usage-based pricing (UBP) has quickly gone from fringe to mainstream in SaaS. Converts to UBP are drawn to the promise of accelerated revenue growth and a more efficient land-and-expand business…
By late last year, the alarm bells were just starting to ring. Researchers discovered that Russian spies had months earlier burrowed deep into the networks of several U.S. federal networks.…
